The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Preston region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank - 28 -
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston - 0.820% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.075% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £28,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.84% +4.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
88 93 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 81.48% 76.23% 59.57%
Number of salaries quoted 81 90 26
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £22,500 £14,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £41,000 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Lancashire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing System Testing across the Preston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Preston System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing System Testing across the Preston region.

Preston System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Preston region citing System Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited System Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) WATIR
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) soapUI
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Preston region citing System Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) soapUI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) WATIR
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
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